2009-M-101             State of Minnesota, Respondent, vs. Daniel Leonard Anderson, Appellant.

First, the  district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting evidence of a prior domestic abuse incident between appellant and the victim’s mother, and any error in the admission of testimony about incidents with appellant’s former girlfriend and appellant’s brother was harmless.

Second, appellant’spro se claims are waived because no error is obvious upon inspection of the claims, and because appellant failed to provide argument or legal authority for his pro se claims.

On May 25, 2007, a Wilkin County jury found appellant Daniel Leonard Anderson (Anderson) guilty of first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse and second-degree felony murder for the death of A.G., the one-year-old son of his girlfriend.  The district court convicted Anderson on the first-degree murder while committing domestic abuse charge and sentenced Anderson to life imprisonment.  Anderson filed a direct appeal to this court arguing that the district court erred in admitting the testimony of three witnesses who described Anderson’s prior behavior.  Anderson also submitted a pro se supplemental brief, raising issues of ineffective assistance of counsel and police misconduct.  We affirm.

               Gildea  (Magnuson, Page, Paul Anderson, Meyer, Barry Anderson, and Dietzen)

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